Talent Guide
Vanessa Bergonzoli
- Discipline:Producer
- Program Year:CNN Docuseries Intensive 2021
Bio
Vanessa Bergonzoli is an award-winning filmmaker who promotes cross-cultural awareness in her everyday practice. Her commitment to bringing stories of the underdog to the big screen guided her documentaries Cinta Amarilla (2019), about a controversial monument to Colombia’s Civil War and Our Own House (2020) which addresses rising plastic pollution in Belize. Her producing work garnered significant award recognition including the CLIO-winning commercial Seflie (2014) for Dove; the HBO, Academy Award-nominated documentary Mondays at Racine (2013), and the Emmy Award-winning Sesame Street special Growing Hope Against Hunger (2012). Vanessa is producing Bootstraps directed by Deia Schlosberg, on Universal Basic Income.
Current Project
BootstrapsLogline
The very ethics of the American economic system are rooted deeply in the idea of “bootstrapping” one’s way to success, making something from nothing in this land of unbounded opportunity. The reality, however, is that the odds of realizing that success are long, and they're heavily stacked against the majority of the population. Could Basic Income revive the American Dream? The BOOTSTRAPS docu-series shows what happens in the lives of everyday Americans when they receive $1,000 a month, no strings attached.